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not sure if my AMD laptop is overclocking correctly


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anyone use OCCT?

are these numbers reliable? it shows my CPU as underclocked

 

now, I know there is a bug with llano laptops

if you go past the stock multiplier CPUz might show a high overclock where in reality it is running at stock levels

 

I am wondering if this is whats happened to me or if OCCT is incorrect?

 

I know Ive had to up the voltage to high levels that a high overclock would require or OCCT is crashing and giving errors - failing the stability test

so that is making me even more confused, if it was running at stock I would not need such high voltages over 1.25v

 

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OCCT uses Cpu-z to get its info so if Cpu-z is flawed so if OCCT :down:

 

 

Also why in the world would you oc a laptop when their cooling is barely adequate in the first place

I overclocked my 540M in my laptop to 550M speeds since it's literally a downclocked 550M and my temps didn't increase much. (and it's 2GB model....not that this 9600GSO equivalent GPU is ANYWAY near needing that much vram, they really went the extra mile for some reason)

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why would I not want a 41% increase in processing power?

that is like going from a 3ghz desktop processor and overclocking it to 4.2

 

heat is a serious issue on laptops but llano actually runs very cool

not like ye olde pentium IVs that would catch on fire

 

it will overheat and shut down after an hour on full system stress tests,

but on gaming it runs just fine at full overclock with 75-80 degrees max

 

occt most likely is using an older version of cpuz im going to guess since it seems to be working

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why would I not want a 41% increase in processing power?

that is like going from a 3ghz desktop processor and overclocking it to 4.2

 

heat is a serious issue on laptops but llano actually runs very cool

not like ye olde pentium IVs that would catch on fire

 

it will overheat and shut down after an hour on full system stress tests,

but on gaming it runs just fine at full overclock with 75-80 degrees max

 

occt most likely is using an older version of cpuz im going to guess since it seems to be working

 

That may be why. Have you tried stress testing with Orthos? Or maybe Intel's burn test?

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